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- What is API versioning?
- What are common API vulnerabilities?
- Difference between PUT vs PATCH
- How do you secure APIs?
- What is rate limiting?
- How do you prevent duplicate requests?
- What is covering index?
- What is N+1 query problem?
- What is isolation level?
- What is schema migration strategy?
- How do you handle schema evolution in distributed systems?
- What is soft delete vs hard delete?
- How do you handle replication lag?
- What happens when cache and DB are inconsistent?
- What is distributed lock?
- What is distributed transaction?
- What is Saga pattern?
- How do you handle partial failure in microservices?
- How do you ensure data consistency across services?
- What is service mesh?
- How do you design for multi-region systems?
- What is fan-out problem?
- What is backpressure?
- How do you handle high traffic spikes?
- How do you design a system for high write throughput?
- How do you handle the hot key problem in Redis?
- How do you handle hot partitions in sharding?
- How do you design pagination at scale?
- What is connection pooling?
- DB is becoming bottleneck, what next?
- Your DB CPU is 100%. What do you do?
- What is blue-green deployment?
- How do you design a system that supports rollback safely?
- What is observability?
- What are latency percentiles (p50, p95, p99)?
- How do you debug a production issue?
- Your system is slow under high load, how do you debug?
- How do you identify a slow API?
- What is circuit breaker?
- Difference between process vs thread vs async (event loop)
- Explain blocking vs non-blocking I/O
- How do you handle race conditions?
- How does garbage collection impact performance?
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